7 days ago
Base Salary
$114k - $130k/yr
Responsibilities
- Monitor application, database, and infrastructure performance across GCP environments.
- Analyze latency, throughput, resource utilization, and performance trends to identify optimization opportunities.
- Support performance testing, workload validation, capacity planning, and automated performance testing activities.
- Tune BigQuery queries and optimize AlloyDB database performance, resources, and execution efficiency.
- Configure and enhance Cloud Monitoring dashboards, alerts, and observability solutions.
- Investigate and resolve CPU, memory, disk, network, and application bottlenecks.
- Optimize Python-based applications, cloud-native workloads, and Pub/Sub messaging performance.
- Develop performance baselines, recommendations, and documentation for continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams on scalability, reliability, and efficiency improvements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in application and infrastructure performance engineering.
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and knowledge of BigQuery, AlloyDB, Compute Engine, and Pub/Sub.
- Experience analyzing performance metrics, resource utilization, system bottlenecks, distributed cloud applications, and services.
- Proficiency in Python and performance optimization techniques.
- Experience with cloud monitoring, observability, alerting, performance testing, workload validation, and capacity planning.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Preferred: experience with Google Cloud Operations Suite, cloud cost optimization, automated performance testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, Kubernetes, GKE, large-scale enterprise cloud transformation, and cloud database performance engineering.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- 401(k) plan and contributions.
- Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week in a client or Cognizant office in Parsippany, New Jersey.
- Applications accepted until October 27, 2026.
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About Cognizant
Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.